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iPhone users search Google 5000% more than competitors!
blogs.computerworld.com — “We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again, ” Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s mobile operations told the Financial Times at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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- bryanabdul, on 02/14/2008, -1/+2I believe it.
- timusca, on 02/14/2008, -0/+85000% sounds so much cooler than 50x.
- dyranios2, on 02/14/2008, -2/+3considering the google search field is integrated right under the URL field....no *****!
- Myztry, on 02/15/2008, -2/+2Oh, it's not default Live search integrated into Internet Explorer integrated into Windows.
Still. You can bet Microsoft will be bitching about anti-competitive behavior.
- Myztry, on 02/15/2008, -2/+2Oh, it's not default Live search integrated into Internet Explorer integrated into Windows.
- billapepper, on 02/15/2008, -5/+0go team Appgle...
- LennyX, on 02/15/2008, -5/+0Comment number 5!
- OSJunky, on 02/15/2008, -0/+1dugg for 5000%
- BledsoeTech, on 02/16/2008, -0/+0While this article has some good things to add to the original Financial Times report (the bullet points at the end were particularly interesting), the headline with the "5000%" number just makes things unnecessarily confusing by introducing another way of stating the “50 times more” number that doesn’t add any useful information.
As technical writers, we owe it to our readers to present numerical information in a way that allows them to make sense out of it, not in a way that attempts to impress or confuse them.
I wrote about this in more detail in an article posted to bledsoetech.blogspot.com. - OgniAsuob, on 03/19/2008, -0/+1iphone users probably do everything 5000% more than normal people: having sex, earning money, eating cake, etc.
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